BPS Research Digest: The new science of "Phew!" - 0 views
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Roughly half the group described a "near-miss" kind of relief - rather like fearing that you've locked yourself out and then realising that you haven't. The other half described a kind of "task-completion" relief, in which a negative experience had come to an end.
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near-miss relief was associated with having more thoughts about how much worse things could have been and feeling more socially isolated
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xcessive rumination can be harmful to close relationships. Experience of task-completion relief, by contrast, was associated with more thoughts about how things could have been even better.
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